This book fills a gap between high-level overview texts that are often too general and low-level detail oriented technical handbooks that lose sight the "big picture". This book discusses SOA from the low-level perspective of middleware, various XML-based technologies, and basic…
This work provides specific techniques for performing process improvement using the CMMI and the family of CMM models. The authors describe the fundamental concepts of the CMMI model - goals, practices, architecture and definitions - in everyday language, providing real-world ex…
This work provides specific techniques for performing process improvement using the CMMI and the family of CMM models. The authors describe the fundamental concepts of the CMMI model - goals, practices, architecture and definitions - in everyday language, providing real-world ex…
Our civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts. To find out why it's so hard to bend computers to our will, Scott Rosenberg spent three years following a team of maverick software developers--led by Lotus 1-2-3 c…
Failed or abandoned software development projects cost the US economy alone billions of dollars a year. In this text, Kweku Ewusi-Mensah offers an empirically grounded study that suggests why these failures happen and how they can be avoided.
Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than 50 years. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the authors explain how software and the software industry are different.
This is a revised and updated edition of this title, which provides a practical introduction to the design of object-oriented programs using UML. It includes detailed coverage of modelling techniques and notation, with worked examples throughout. The book contains substantial co…
Welcome to the new state of the art development for iOS, with the radically overhauled Xcode 4 toolchain and iOS 5 SDK. With this book you'll accelerate your development for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. You will learn the new tools like Storyboards, practice on new APIs like the…
